Sands Bethlehem Event Center wants you to see its best shows from its best seats this summer.

So it’s offering a very big discount.

But you have to act fast.

Michael McDonald

Now through Monday, July 8, when you buy one VIP suite ticket to any of nine shows in July, you can get 50 percent off the price of a second VIP suite ticket.

That could mean savings of up to $57.50 for two VIP seats to 1970s rockers Bad Company on July 29, or $47.50 off two seats for the Anti-Social Comedy Tour’s second show at 10 p.m. July 20 or $42.50 off two seats to 1970s doper comics Cheech and Chong with War on July 28.

It could even mean $20 off two seats to former Live front man Ed Kowalczyk for his July 19 show.

The “Stars, Stripes and Suites” promotion tells potential ticket buyers to “prepare for heart-pounding action, breathtaking musical performances and live entertainment from the best seat in the house.”

The discounted shows start with $42.50 off two VIP suite seats to see former Doobie Brothers front man Michael McDonald on Sunday.

Other shows include Los Lobos with Los Lonely Boys and Alejandro Escovedo on July 10 (save $37.50 on two seats), The Ultimate Thriller Michael Jackson Tribute on July 21 ($37.50 off two seats), comedian and future “Late Night” TV show host Seth Meyers on July 12 (save $32.50 on two seats) and Impractical Jokers on July 31 (save $27.50 on two seats).

The only shows not included in the discount are former Guns ‘N Roses guitarist Slash on July 16 and classic crooner Tony Bennett on July 26.

To get the discount tickets, you have to go in person to the event center box office. For questions, call the box office at 610-297-7414.

JOHN J. MOSER has been around long enough to have seen the original Ramones in a small club in New Jersey, U2 from the fourth row of a theater and Bob Dylan's born-again tours. But he also has the number for All-American Rejects' Nick Wheeler on his cell phone, wrote the first story ever done on Jack's Mannequin and hung out in Wiz Khalifa's hotel room.

OTHER CONTRIBUTORS

JODI DUCKETT: As The Morning Call's assistant features editor responsible for entertainment, she spends a lot of time surveying the music landscape and sizing up the Valley's festivals and club scene. She's no expert, but enjoys it all — especially artists who resonated in her younger years, such as Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young, Tracy Chapman, Santana and Joni Mitchell.

KATHY LAUER-WILLIAMS enjoys all types of music, from roots rock and folk to classical and opera. Music has been a constant backdrop to her life since she first sat on the steps listening to her mother’s Broadway LPs when she was 2. Since becoming a mother herself, she has become well-versed on the growing genre of kindie rock and, with her son in tow, can boast she has seen a majority of the current kid’s performers from Dan Zanes to They Might Be Giants.

STEPHANIE SIGAFOOS: A Jersey native raised in Northeast PA, she was reared in a house littered with 8-tracks, 45s and cassette tapes of The Beatles, Elvis, Meatloaf and Billy Joel. She also grew up on the sounds of Reba McEntire, Garth Brooks and Tim McGraw and can be found traversing the countryside in search of the sounds of a steel guitar. A fan of today's 'new country,' she digs mainstream/country-pop crossovers like Lady Antebellum and Sugarland and other artists that illustrate the genre's diversity.